Bibliography on
Women in Islam
(with
a special emphasis on - but not confined to - South Asia)
Contributed by Amy L. Allocco, Elon University
Women in Islam (with a special emphasis on - but not confined to -
South Asia)
Books, Chapters, and Journal Articles
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin
Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
___. "The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power
Through Bedouin Women." American Ethnologist, Vol. 17:1 (Feb. 1990),
pp. 41-55.
Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern
Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
De Souza, Eunice. Purdah: An Anthology. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004.
Fealy, Greg and Virginia Hooker, eds. Voices of Islam in Southeast
Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, 2006.
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's
Global Journey. New York: Random House, 1998.
___. Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. New York:
Random House, 1995.
Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter. In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and
Vernacular Islam in South India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2006).
Hambly, Gavin R.G. "Becoming Visible: Medieval Islamic Women in
Historiography and History" in Gavin R.G. Hambly, ed. Shi'ite
Devotional Literature" in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power,
Patronage, and Piety. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Herman, Phyllis K. "Islam in India" in Kathryn M. Coughlin,
ed. Muslim Cultures Today: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press, 2006.
Hosain, Attia. Sunlight on a Broken Column. Penguin India.
Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat. Sultana's Dream. A Feminist Utopia and
Selections from The Secluded Ones (Roushan Jahan, ed. and trans.) The
Feminist Press, 1988.
Kahn, Joel S. "Islam, Modernity and the Popular in Malaysia" in
Virginia Hooker and Norani Othman, eds. Malaysia: Society and Politics.
Essays in Honor of Clive S. Kessler. Singapore: Institute of Southeast
Asian Studies, 2003.
Kamran Scot Aghaie, ed. The Women of Karbala: The Gender Dynamics of
Ritual Performances and Symbolic Discourses of Modern Shi'i Islam. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2005.
Macleod, Arlene. Accommodating Protest: Working Women, The New Veiling,
and Change in Cairo. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist
Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Metcalf, Barbara Daly, trans. Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf 'Ali
Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Minault, Gail, trans. Voices of Silence: Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali's
Majalis un-Nissa (Assemblies of Women) and Chup ki Dad (Homage to the
Silent). Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1986.
Minault, Gail and Hanna Papanek, eds. Separate Worlds: Studies of
Purdah in South Asia. South Asia Books and Chanakya Publications, 1982.
Available online here: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urdu/hali/majalis/index.html
and here: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urdu/hali/chupkidad/index.html
Moore, Lucy. The Maharanis: A Family Saga of Four Queens. Penguin USA.
Murata, Sachiko. The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in
Islamic Thought. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
Pemberton, Kelly. "Muslim Women and Female Spiritual Authority in
South Asian Sufism" in Stewart, Pamela and Strathern, Andrew, eds.
Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity-Making. Durham:
Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
Pinault, David. "Zaynab Bint'Ali and the Place of the Women of the
Household of the First Imams" in Gavin R.G. Hambly, ed. Shi'ite
Devotional Literature" in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power,
Patronage, and Piety. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Purkayastha, Bandana and Anjana Narayan,eds. Living Our Religions:
Hindu and Muslim South Asian American Women Narrate Their Experiences.
Kumarian Press, 2009
Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi. Haram in the Harem: Domestic Narratives in
India and Algeria. Peter Lang, 2009.
Salma. The Hour Past Midnight. (Lakshmi Holmstrom, trans.) Zubaan
Books, 2009.
Sarkissian, Margaret. "'Religion Never Had It so Good': Contemporary
Nasyid and the Growth of Islamic Popular Music in Malaysia." Yearbook
for Traditional Music 2005: 4 (pages 124-152).
Schimmel, Annemarie. My Soul is a Woman: The Feminine in Islam. New
York: Continuum, 2003.
Stevens, Malia. "(Re)Framing Women's Rights Claims in
Malaysia" in Virginia Hooker and Norani Othman, eds. Malaysia:
Society and Politics. Essays in Honor of Clive S. Kessler. Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003.
Stowasser, Barbara Freyer. Women in the Qur'an, Traditions and
Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Wadud, Amina. Quran and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's
Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Websites
Muslim Women's League http://www.mwlusa.org/
Films
Dor
Dunia (Egypt)
Firaaq
Garam Hawaa
Henna
The Beauty Academy of Kabul (Docurama Films)
Khuda ke Liye (Pakistan)
Me & The Mosque (National Film Board of Canada, 2005)
Naseem
Nikaah
Osama (Afghanistan)
Paakeezaah
Paradise Lies at the Feet of the Mother (Disc 4 of the BBC's Living Islam
documentary)
Pinjar (by Chandraprakash Dvivedi)
Razia Sultaan
Tawaif
Road to Kerbala (First Run/Icarus Films)
The Stoning of Soraya (Iran)
Train to Pakistan
Umrao Jaan
Veer Zaara
Wearing Hijab: Uncovering the Myths of Islam in the United States (Films
for the Humanities and Sciences, 2006)
Zubeida
**See also the list of good teaching films on Islam generated on the
Islam-AAR Listerve.
Revised: May 20, 2010
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